Re: Linux's Much Overlooked Calculator -- BC

On 2010-03-24, TJ <TJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I want a browser, I just click on the icon at the bottom of the
screen and it pops up in a second or two. <Shrug.> No need for it
sitting there open, idle, wasting resources. Makes no more sense than
keeping my tractor running because I might want it in an hour or two.

This is not a fair comparison. Your tractor is using gas while idling
(and spewing yuckies into the air in the process). An idle process is
not consuming anything active--if it's not using the CPU, then the CPU
is doing something else. IOW, you'll never get those cycles back, so
to speak of ''conserving'' them is a non-starter.

--keith

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